May 19, 2014 | Easter, Monday Muse, scripture
The spiritual practice of lectio divina is a contemplative style of reading Scripture, a prayerful listening to a biblical passage and to our souls’ response to that passage, accompanied by an attention to God’s presence. (Here is BeliefNet’s...
May 18, 2014 | discipleship, prayer
And now we have told you our stories, O God: named our worries and shared our delights, confessed our sins and witnessed you among us. Now tell us your story, Most Holy God, write it upon our hearts in the silence of prayer. Tell us again of your magnitude over the...
May 16, 2014 | lament, news, prayer
One: Hear the world, O God. Uncover your ears and know your people’s anguish. Many: Do not hide yourself from the cries for relief, from the noises of war. One: The world is distraught, O God. People and nations live in fear, and creation echoes their trembling....
May 12, 2014 | justice, Monday Muse, news, worship
Monday morning, and I cannot put this thought to rest: we have consumed the names of the kidnapped Nigerian girls for the sake of our own piety. If Facebook is any indication, yesterday (Mother’s Day) many American churches prayed for the Nigerian girls and...
